Re: PHP4 to PHP5


"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:02:25 -0400, sheldonlg wrote:

I have programmed in Fortran, PL/1, C, Java, Basic, Pascal, Cobol,
PHP, VB, DCL, sh, csh, etc. and there isn't a language that I
have seen that can prevent "any idiot to write the most horrible
unmaintainable crap".

Idiots are very ingenious like that.

you know, these 'idiots' i don't have a problem with. i can't stand the
end-users. they can find a bug in software the minute you sit them in front
of the interface. it so negates the hours of time spent by the author and
the testing team to ensure they can't screw anything up!

while there is no stopping such ingenious idiots, i find i can deal with the
fact that the real problem is not them. i have to pause and rethink why i'm
calling someone an idiot; someone who is only doing what they know to do.
that's whether it's using an interface or writing the best code they know
how. both problems can be fixed...and that won't be blamed on how easily
code can be written in one language or another. grab one of the offenders
and show them a better way to write the code!

just a thought.

cheers.


.

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